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...Wednesday evening, March 10, Colonel Arthur Woods '92 will speak on "American Citizenship on Trial" in the Living Room of the Union. He will be introduced by Professor W. B. Munro '99, professor of Municipal Government. Colonel Woods will be given a luncheon by the signet Club at 1 o'clock and in the evening the Governing Board of the Union will give a small supper at 6.30 o'clock just preceding his speech...
...Secretary Taft's party, and later made a trip around the world. During the war he acted as an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War, at which time he advocated vocational education for those disabled during the war. Colonel Woods is very well qualified to speak on "American Citizenship on Trial" because of his connection with the New York police force. It was while he was Police Commissioner of New York City that he did his greatest work, completely reorganizing the police force of that city and making it most efficient body of its kind in the world. Because...
...second lecture in the series arranged by the management of the Union will take place on Wednesday evening, March 10, when Colonel Arthur Hale Woods '92 will speak on "American Citizenship on Trial." Colonel Woods, after graduating from the University, spent several years as instructor at Groton School, after which he went to Europe and was at the University of Berlin for two semesters. He spent part of 1905 and 1906 in New York City as reporter on the "Evening Sun," and later studied the police situation there. In the summer of 1905 he travelled through the Philippines with Secretary...
...government of the country were to be considered paramount among all national activities and the political duties of citizenship were ranked above all others, it is evident that then a clearer opinion on the matter might be formulated. And the opinion would seem necessarily to be this: we need rather a considerable number of men with highly developed ability and brilliant attainments than an unlimited host of comparatively able average...
...great agricultural population of the middle west are the great exponents of this Americanism. American traditions and ideals are today the dominant element in their citizenship. If the country is to be saved from the general demoralization of the present day, it will be saved by this population and not by the urban population with their narrow class consciousness and antagonism, their splenetic attitude and petty quarrels. And there is no man who so completely embodies this broad and constructive spirit of nationalism as Governor Allen...